The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-14
Issues May be Lost, But
Principles Never.
Corsicana, Texas, Sept. 18th, 's7.

Corsicana, Texas. Sept. 18th, 's7.
EDITOR BULLETIN:-The pfinci-
pie underlying the prohibition of
the liquor traffic Is universal in its
application. We must work for it
as a principle till the world shall be
redeemed. We have lost 6O0.-
600 men in battle in the psst one
hundred years. but in the same
time we have lost 100000 by the
strong drink. One man out of a
thousand dying with delirlum-tr
mems is enough to set us wild on
the question of prohibition.
How are we to manage the drink
question at home in the social
circles, and in the church ? I
anwser let every man and woman
put an end TO the matter of drinking
anything that will intoxic&te by
not using it, it ia the line of duty
ana safety. 1t is just as easy to
say no to the first glass as it is to
the last one. Then, let us all saw
no to the whole thing. Again. our
nope of success, lies along this line.
We must continue to organize,
agitate and educate. There is no
discharge in this war. The object,
end and aim of the True, Blues in
Texas has been 10 align the. grand
old Democratic party with the
saloon and its interests. Was it SO
in Tennessee F? 1t is now the policy
of the same leaders to make a
break in the party at the next
election. so as to align the whisky
men with their party. Any one
W no wishes to look into the matter
from its incipiencY can see that,
these leaders are a set of desig nlng
politicians, attempting to deceive
the people IN the name of democ
Tacy. personal liberty" snd .'inal-
enable rights" They have been
working in the interest Of the in :
famous whisky monopoly which is
to~dsy dragging the millions of
wage laborers and farmers down to |
wretchedness aud degre
dation. These leaders deserve to be
in the face OF civilization,
md be made feel the lnfamy in
which they have been engaged
The monopoly in ardent spirits is to-
lay the meanest anu the strongest,
wi in the world. And yet cur
and senators continue
t In the name of good. A pre-,
ense that by no sort of reasoning
IAN be justified Is made that whisky
5 a bad thing and therefore should
% taxed.
Now it behooves every laboring
nan to look into those things. Let
very farmer and mechanic sit down
nd count the cost. A gallon of
whisky or brandy is worth twenty
We cents, now he must pay $500
or it, sixteen times as much as it is
worth. Why should you pay this
normOus profit to the men who are
lready wealthy?
If you drink at the saloons YOU
ay $500 per gallon. Now the
alOon pays a revenue. it helps to
ay the taxes-whOm does 1t help?
If course the rich. Poor people
ont pay much tax; don't need to
az much, Then in running the
lleon we are simply helping the
lch man to pay bis tax, making
I'M richer and ourselves poorer. /
Will the old fashioned Democracy
nd liberty loving people Of this !
'untry never see that their politi>
ans are simply ma king tools of g
lem to make politicians rich and
boring people poor. r
This whisky monopoly, has dono |
lore to impoverish the farmer ana Z
in this State than any Z
her monopoly. and yet, we go on
oting for it, and for the men who
III it-while it ruins us. This
ighty monopoly run the cam
aign of the True Blues against
rohibition, and now it gets its
ioney back from the thousands OF "
boring men by this monopoly. u
pen year eyes my countrymeul ,
q. A. CoULsoE. y